Suganuma previously had spells with Roasso Kumamoto, Júbilo Iwata, Kyoto Sanga, Montedio Yamagata and Gamba Osaka in Japan.

He was loaned out to J2 League club Roasso Kumamoto for the second half of the 2011 season and played 17 times as the men from Kyushu finished in 11th place.

[3] Suganuma spent most of his first season back in Osaka on the substitutes bench as a backup to the first-choice centre-back pairing of Genta Miura and Fábio.

Still, he did manage to rack up 16 appearances in total, 11 in the league and 5 in the J.League Cup, helping Gamba to finish 9th and reach the quarter-finals in those respective competitions.

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